hormonal

From hormone + -al.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɔɹˈmoʊnəl/

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hormonal (comparative more hormonal, superlative most hormonal)

1. (biochemistry) Pertaining to hormones.
   • 2023 March 21, Jessie Gretener, “Progestagen-only contraceptives carry similar, small breast cancer risk as other hormone contraceptives, study finds”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The authors also said they attempted to investigate whether there are differing breast cancer risks between hormonal and nonhormonal IUDs.

2. (colloquial) Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle.
3. Strongly affected by one's hormones.

   a hormonal teenage boy

   • 1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:

     All those male bodies and loud, virile male hormonal voices.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.mɔ.nal/

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hormonal (feminine hormonale, masculine plural hormonaux, feminine plural hormonales)

1. hormonal

• “hormonal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

hormonal (not comparable)

1. hormonal

• hormon
• hormonic

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: hor‧mo‧nal

hormonal m or f (plural hormonais)

1. hormonal

• “hormonal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French hormonal. By surface analysis, hormon +‎ -al.

hormonal m or n (feminine singular hormonală, masculine plural hormonali, feminine/neuter plural hormonale)

1. hormonal

• IPA^(key): /oɾmoˈnal/ [oɾ.moˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: hor‧mo‧nal

hormonal m or f (masculine and feminine plural hormonales)

1. hormonal

• “hormonal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025